emirate of sicily
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A medieval Islamic state that ruled Sicily from 831 until falling to the Normans in 1091; specifically, the state ruled by the Kalbids, from 948 to 1091.
Example Sentences
- "1992 [Rosemont Publishing & Printing], Peter Sammartino, William Roberts, Sicily: An Informal History, 2001, Cromwall Books, Paperback, page 44, After becoming the capital of the Arab Emirate of Sicily, Palermo became a center of a cultural assimilation that was developed during the Arab conquest of the Mediterranean region and the Middle East."
- "In the ninth century, during the Emirate of Sicily, the bitter orange was introduced in Sicily."
- "In Italy, similar devices are found both in Puglia and in Sicily, where the town of Palermo still takes a proportion of its water out of a network of qanats (see Todaro, 2014); the Arabic term being employed in Palermo since the town's history as the capital of the Emirate of Sicily has led many to assume that the structures are of Arabic origin."
Inflected Forms
the Emirate of Sicily (canonical)